Republicans, fascists, Musk exploit Minneapolis school massacre to escalate anti-trans campaign. Fascist lies are used to expand use of the label "terrorist" against everyone's democratic rights, while the Democrats use identity issues to obscure the class struggle. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#FedEx #layoffs accelerating #logistics job cuts, including 1000 this summer with 100 stations closed. #UPS planned 20,000 jobs 2025 cuts & 73 facilites closed. FedEx Board member David Steiner is the new #USPS Postmaster General preparing privatization www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The attack on #Gaza City and the imperialist logic behind the ethnic cleansing of #Palestine. Attacks on workers conditions of life & rights, like #genocide, is rooted in profits-over-lives capitalism & requires international industrial action, & #FightForSocialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Yes, but Zionism is rooted in defense of imperialist profits-over-lives no less than the attacks on workers living conditions and rights, which explains Sanders role campaigning to keep workers under the illusion that the Wall St. Democrats & capitalism can be reformed. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Workers Struggles: The Americas www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
White House plots total ethnic cleansing of Gaza. #GeneralStrike #FightForSocialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
20 years since #HurricaneKatrina. The mass media tries hide how 65,000 troops were sent, not rescue & aid, but to stop desperate people needing supplies from breaking into stores, as if insurrection, a basis for #Trump plans for the interests of the oligrachy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
These governments, representing their oligarchies, are more interested in preserving tourism, while they help imperiliasm attack the rights of migrants and the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Even when US imperialism was in the ascendant, Fitzgerald saw that it was criminal and rotten, and that it had no glorious future. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
1,400 school workers strike #Evergreen Public Schools in Washington state www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Philadelphia #teachers union rams through contract in sham vote that should not be considered legitimate. #Philly #educators should form independent Rank&File Committees calling meetings to coordinate district-wide action. #PFT #PHLed #PFTstrong #TWU234 #CTU #UFT #UTLA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Israel moves into the ground phase of the #USbacked forced removal of #Palestinians from #Gaza City. The US has mobilized logistical & diplomatic resources in preparation for the expulsion in the campaign of #EthnicCleansing. #Genocide #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Global Sumud Flotilla of over 50 ships to sail from several European & Tunisian ports against #Israel #GenocideinGaza. Workers & youth across every country must raise demands for immediate halt to shipments of weapons and aid to Israel & #GeneralStrike. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Form Rank&File Committees to unite! #GE Aerospace workers walk out as defense industry strikes spread #UAW www.wsws.org/en/articles/... #Boeing strike at the crossroads: #IAM officials appeal for Trump intervention while starving workers out on the picket line www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Declaration of Independence: All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations...evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government
#PFTLocal3 vote on a rotten contract without enough time to discuss is just a way to get teachers back. Pledging not to strike if TA is rejected is a new form of strike breaking.Even if the lies succed in "passing" it, it is not legitimate. #teachers. #PHLed #PFTstrong www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Every member of the United Nations Security Council, excluding the United States, voted in favor of a statement implicitly alleging that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
At its most recent meeting, the DNC didn’t pose any resolution in response to Trump’s plans for deploying the National Guard into American cities. This party of Wall Street and the intelligence agencies is incapable of defending democracy. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Death toll from #Gaza mass #starvation hits 313. Trump's plan & Blair’s participation in #EthnicCleansing, occupation and annexation of Gaza makes clear the fraudulent character of the criticisms made by the imperialist powers of #Israel ’s starvation policy. #Genocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Distorting case law and supporting the Zelensky regime, a Ukrainian appeals court has ruled that socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk can be kept in prison before trial. This is an attack on democratic rights. Support the campaign to free Bogdan! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
What #teachers need to know about the sellout contract in #Philadelphia. While undermining living standards & working conditions, #PFT aims to forestall class struggle in the face of increasing exploitation, war, genocide and the threat of dictatorship. #Philly #UFT #CTU www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump’s attempts to establish direct control over the Fed are raising alarms internationally about the credibility of the US financial system. The bourgeoisie only intensifies its crisis with its putative solutions. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Minority Leader #Jeffries refuses to endorse NY mayoral candidate #Mamdani amid deepening Democratic Party crisis. #Democrats face no real threats from Mamdani & the loyal #DSA. The fear is of workers & youth escaping their control & giving a hearing to real #socialists www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#ICE arrests at Southern California schools terrorize students & parents. To defeat this fascistic wave whose roots lie in capitalist rule, the working class must immediately form rank&file committees in every neighborhood, school & workplace preparing a #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A report issued in January 2024 suggested that in the next three years alone some 204,000 “creative jobs” would be “adversely affected in the United States” by artificial intelligence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Trump executive order to prepare military intervention in multiple US cities creates a vigilante unit, comprised of former police & soldiers, resembling the Freikorps in Germany after WW1, which was the initial form of what was to become Hitler’s Nazi stormtroopers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Chinese scientist at University of Michigan enters “no contest” plea despite Fifth Amendment violations. Persecution involving attacks on #rights, on routine #science practice, on universities are used for ideological warfare to prepare for war with #China www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#BernieSanders’ Mission Impossible: Save the Democratic Party www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Large marches in #Australia voice hostility to Labor’s role in #Gaza genocide. The #SEP called for mobilizing the working class independently, including #strikes, to cripple the war machine, in rebellion against union apparatuses blocking such action around the world. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Famine claims lives of 289 Gazans as US-backed Israel attacks #Gaza City. #Genocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
No to US #imperialist aggression against #Venezuela! For the unity of the working class across the Americas! The military siege of Venezuela marks a new stage in an unprecedented escalation of aggression by #USimperialism against #LatinAmerica as a whole. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Pentagon secret plans to send troops into #Chicago. The #Democrats Governor Pritzker & Mayor Johnson responding as cowardly as the DC Mayor although there is no legality for #Trump at all. They might go to court, but fear calling for a #GeneralStrike. #FightForSocialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
29 #immigrant workers arrested & 3 injured in latest ICE raid in New Jersey; #Democrats complicit, including their union apparatus. Rank&file workers committees must unite in defense, with immigrant, unemployed, non-union brothers & sisters. #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... The circle is now closing
#Philadelphia #teachers: Prepare for a struggle—break the cycle of sellout, unite the working class, and build rank-and-file power! #PFT #PSD #Philly #educators #AFT #NEA #UFT #CTU #UTLA #schools #parents #students #education #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
US deploys Marines, landing craft in escalating threat to #Venezuela. The US government is again resorting to the method of the Big Lie, seeking to create a pretext for war by telling lies so big that they seem impossible to refute. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Autoworkers speak on the investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker #RonaldAdamsSr. and continuing industrial carnage. “The union works with the bosses behind closed doors to cover up the injuries and deaths that happen every day”. #UAW #safety www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Massachusetts: 326,000 could lose #health insurance in the next decade with passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Kenya’s National People’s Council: A petty-bourgeois nationalist trap for the #GenZ revolt. #NPC www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Trump’s military grip tightens on #Washington. The justification used of fighting crime, which is lower in D.C. than in states sending troops, ignores how an essential root of crime is extreme social #inequality, which is incompatible with #democracy. #FightForSocialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Trump administration to begin continuous police-state #surveillance of 55 million US visa holders. Behind the bureaucratic phrase used of“continuous #immigration vetting” lies the creation of permanent police-state surveillance applicable to all people. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Israel launches onslaught against #Gaza City.The US-backed Zionist state salso plans increased settlement project to split the #WestBank in two. & #Trump is sanctioning ICC judges who charged Netanyahu with war crimes. Workers have the power to end this #genocide. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Immigrant #Dairy workers strike to stop #Wisconsin cheese company from violating their basic rights. Workers producing a basic human need, some for for decades, presage mass struggles for all our rights and livelihood. #GeneralStrike #FightForSocialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Nearly one month after Israel announced it would allow more aid into the territory, Gaza officials said Thursday that they've only received less than 15% of the minimum humanitarian assistance necessary to keep Palestinians alive.
I guarantee that this is going to be used as a way to start targeting leftists in the United States, same as they did in the McCarthy era and the UnAmerican activities list. The beast is scared, it is seeing the slow rise in class consciousness brought in by its own barbarism.
The decline of geographic and job #mobility in the US: A symptom of capitalism’s deepening crisis. "If workers are immobilized by #housing costs or debt, they do not have the option of moving. Employers know this and that they do not need to raise pay". Wage slavery! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
On the 85th anniversary of the assassination of Leon #Trotsky: Maxists are historical optimists. Capitalism leads to fascism, genocide & war but makes possible revolution & #socialism, if we build the leadership to impart a correct political program to the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
And those that do not oppose it are probably for the most part employed by the Trump Administration. Crime IS up in DC and it is the government that is the perpertrators. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
Marxists never thought that. And is it just the military or also their Democrat enablers and the courts, too? The capitalist state as a whole must be seen as the agency of the oligarchy, and this is internationally. Follow the logic of your observation to socialism. wsws.org
Chanting is not a substitute for a #GeneralStrike and an independent break of the working class from the Republican fascists and their Democrat enablers, and the fight for a mass party of the working class fighting for international socialism -the Socialist Equality Party.
The differences between NATO members have never been so sharp. But though they differ in their choice of target, they agree on the policy of war and austerity. International workers’ unity is a necessity. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The stock market boom, hailed by Trump and many others as an expression of the health of the US capitalist economy, is in fact a fever chart of its diseased character and the harbinger of yet another financial crisis. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#CUPE suppresses #AirCanada flight attendants strike in late-night backroom deal. With union apparatus tied to coroporations' & capitalst state's demand of sacrificing for profits & wars, rank-and-file committees need to to vote No & expand the fight. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Nearly one million in #Israel demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to #Gaza war. The aim must be replacement of the Zionist state & the various #Arab bourgeois regimes that support it with the establishment of the United #Socialist States of the #MiddleEast. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#AirCanada workers defy back-to-work order: A turning point in the global #ClassStruggle. #GeneralStrike #FightForSocialism #flightattendants #CUPE #APFA #AFA #CWA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Workers Struggles: The Americas --including 1,500 #educators for the Naperville District 203 in Illinois voted overwhelmingly August 12 to grant strike authorization. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
Another example of the cowardly Democrats, accepting the fascistic dictatorship of the acting in the interests of the capitalist oligarchy, and afraid to call out the working class masses to protect democratic rights, because we could, and should, turn on them as well. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thanks for the support. What do you think of the socialist view of strikes, that by withholding our labor power we are not just trying to get the bosses attention and plead with them to "do right" but challenging their capitalist power, and, if government, take political power? Is that not needed?
#AirCanada flight attendants defy Liberal government strikebreaking order. Workers of #Canada & all North America must join defence of the more than 10,000 Air Canada #flightattendants, courageously defying a federal government strikebreaking order. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Also in Texas, lots of danger for and from trains: Union Pacific train derails near Dallas, Texas carrying hazardous materials. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Let’s be clear: disaster relief isn’t a bargaining chip. But in Texas, Abbott made it one—tying urgent flood aid to a partisan redistricting plan. Every second counts when kids are homeless and businesses are gone. This is immoral.
After the fatal Clairton Coke Works explosion, the USW has not called for shutting down production or even holding management accountable. The union is working with US Steel and OSHA to drag out the investigation and cover up the truth. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Death rate for US #children surges 25 percent in 10 years, while child mortality rate has slowly fallen in other developed countries resulting in 54 "excess" US child deaths every day from causes ranging from lack of #health insurance to gunshot and poor environment. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Zohran #Mamdani’s establishment credibility gets a boost from #Obama -- who continued huge transfers of wealth to the rich, kept wars going, defended torture, began drone murders, including American citizens, without due process, paving the way for Trump. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Socialist Equality Party holds International Summer School on Security and the #FourthInternational. #SEP #socialism #Trotskyism #IWARFC #FightForSocialism #internationalism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#NEA #Teachers union executives maintain alliance with Zionist Anti-Defamation League. If educators want to expel the #ADL from schools, let alone stop the mass murder in #Gaza, they will have to break politically from the wealthy functionaries. #genocide #AFT #UFT www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
At least 1 worker dead, 10 injured in massive explosion at #USSteel plant in Pennsylvania. Join the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees for a movement to end the sacrifice of workers’ lives and limbs on the altar of profit. #USW www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Voices Without Faces: “I don’t exist there, nor do I exist here” — A mother and daughter speak out against the war on #immigrants. Part of a new series from the World Socialist Web Site. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
No contract offer in sight as #Philadelphia public #school #teachers press for Aug. 31 strike. Against budget deficits also in NYC, Chicago & LA that result from not taxing the rich, rank-and-file must unite & break from union-backed Democrat austerity. #PFT #UFT www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Blackwater founder Erik Prince pitches deployment of US mercenaries to South America. Part of the capitalist ruling class push to maintain its hegemony, especially aimed to crush China in world war. Unite the international working class for socialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“We are erasing the Palestinian state,” said Finance Minister Smotrich Friday. The working class is the force that has the industrial & political power stop the Gaza & West Bank genocide. A break from the union apparatus and Democrat Party is needed for a general strike. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
“We are erasing the Palestinian state,” said Finance Minister Smotrich Friday. The working class is the force that has the industrial & political power stop the Gaza & West Bank genocide. A break from the union apparatus and Democrat Party is needed for a general strike. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Gaza City’s iconic Shuja’iyya neighborhood no longer exists mondoweiss.net/2025/08/gaza...
While US & #NYC boast they will host games in the 2026 #FIFAWorldCup, Renowned #Palestinian #football/#soccer hero Suleiman al-Obeid was murdered by US-backed #Israel at aid distribution site. #GazaGenocide #GeneralStrike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Trump orders police-military takeover of Washington D.C. & threatens #NYC, Chicago to solve #homelessness with guns instead of #housing. This is the solution of capitalism that builds for the rich but demolishes workers. #GeneralStrike #FightForSocialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Israel murders 6 #journalists, continuing to impose its own false story. In practice, it is the mass removal of hundreds of thousands of #Palestinians—driven into concentration camps near the Egyptian border—with a long-term Israeli security presence. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
International statements of solidarity to #IWARFC hearing into the death of #RonaldAdamsSr. #safety www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Trump ends collective bargaining for 370,000 #Federal Workers. #AFGE, #AFlCIO, and the #unions bureaucratic appartus in general, do not take the necessary action. #GeneralStrike. #APWU #NALC #USPS #Teamsters #teachers #AFT #NEA #UFT #FightForSocialism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
It is up to the working class, potentially the most powerful force in society, to prepare necessary social & political response to danger of capitalist dictatorship & imperialist war by building the mass political movement of working people, based on a socialist program. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
182 Royal #Ballet and #Opera staff denounce #GazaGenocide, forcing cancellation of Tosca production in #TelAviv, #Israel. #GeneraStrike. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
Workers must mobilise to halt the Zionist/imperialist extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Workers must mobilise to halt the Zionist/imperialist extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Workers must mobilise to halt the Zionist/imperialist extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
After a period of relative quiet, Ukraine is seeing a surge of protests and resistance to recruitment agents and police. These spontaneous rebellions must adopt a consciously socialist and internationalist program. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Workers must mobilise to halt the Zionist/imperialist extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Six UAW locals have brought charges such as dereliction of duty and financial misconduct against President Shawn Fain. As justified as these charges are, they represent a maneuver by other bureaucrats, not a workers’ revolt. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Israel formally adopts plan to occupy all of Gaza. The cutting edge is 100 children starved, 200 journalists killed. That is not just "occupation" but genocide, now being extended to the West Bank. #GeneralStrike! #FightForSocialism! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Three hundred Jewish legal and cultural figures have written an open letter opposing the Labour government’s complicity in the genocide. This display of opposition is necessary, but pressure on the bourgeois state is ineffective. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Italy #dockworkers block Saudi ship carrying weapons for #Israel. #GazaGenocide www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
From Los Angeles to Ukraine: The continuation of the war raises new horizons for social struggle www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Germany supplies #Ukraine with more Patriot systems, arms for war as it did under Hitler. In part, this is a result of Trump demands on #NATO, with Democrat support, bringing us deeper into #WorldWar again. #RussiaUkraineWar #Russia www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Probe into #ICE abuse exposes crimes authorized by Congress. #immigrants #detention www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#SouthAfrica’s #ANC government arrests 1,000 #miners. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
#Workers internationally state support for #IWARFC hearing on the death of #RonaldAdamsSr. #safety www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
US imposes 20% #tariff on #SriLanka. Notably, #IWARFC demands for workers there are needed in the #USA too: No to cuts in wage & work conditions; Full pay until new employment is found; Decent wages indexed to the cost of living; affordable housing, free healthcare. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...